131: Please Read My Livejournal!

The Mortified Podcast

Mortified Media and Radiotopia

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Current Mood: Desperate. Mortified pays tribute to the kids who grew up in an era right before Myspace and Facebook and pioneered the idea of going public with your private life. But was anyone actually paying attention? The Mortified Podcast is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Listen to all episodes.

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0:00.0	Radio Tapio.
0:04.0	From PRX.
0:10.0	Dear diary.
0:11.0	6th grade. February 14th.
0:13.0	1991.
0:14.0	I am really depressed.
0:15.0	How could she break up with me?
0:17.0	Mom, you can't read this.
0:25.0	July 2nd, 2002.
0:28.0	Today I realize my life is really boring.
0:31.0	Nothing is fun except playing baseball and basketball.
0:35.0	And I guess when I have sex with the only fun things in my life.
0:40.0	I want to have sex.
0:44.0	I mean, I want to get sexually active with a woman.
0:52.0	For centuries, journals have been something to be kept private.
0:58.0	My balls are much darker than my penis.
1:09.0	But starting in the mid 1990s, journals became an open book.
1:12.0	Or for teenagers like Casey Bealer, an open web page.
1:17.0	January 23rd, 2003.
1:19.0	How I be feeling.
1:21.0	Blissful.
1:22.0	Quizzes, what number are you?
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